John Maynard Keynes book The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 21
“It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 256)
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“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
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Source: A Woman of No Importance